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HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- A truck loaded with concrete stone chips rammed into a passenger bus in southern India early Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring about two dozens, local authorities said. The state-run transport bus was carrying around 70 passengers en route to Hyderabad city in southern Telangana state when a truck coming from opposite direction collided with it near the town of Chevalla, local district official K. Chandrakala told The Associated Press. The front of the bu ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Thick smog blanketed India's capital on Tuesday, a day after millions celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with fireworks that sent air pollution levels soaring to hazardous levels across the city. Revelers in New Delhi burst firecrackers late into Monday night, filling the air with smoke and fine particles that mixed with seasonal pollution and stagnant weather conditions. By Tuesday morning, the city's Air Quality Index had climbed above 350 in several neighborhoods, a le ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Western powers have ramped up pressure on Russia's oil sales amid its war with Ukraine as U.S. President Donald Trump said India would stop buying and Britain imposed sanctions on top Russian oil firms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is schedule to meet Trump in Washington on Friday to push for military and energy support at a time when Kyiv and Moscow are escalating the war with attacks on energy infrastructure. Indian officials are also in Washington for trade t ...Read More >
PATNA, India (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's national alliance faces a tough regional election in the state of Bihar next month, due to youth unemployment and distrust over voter rolls, which could pose risks to his coalition that relies on regional partners. Bihar, in eastern India, is one of the country's poorest states and its third most populous, with over 130 million people. Its chief minister Nitish Kumar has previously sided with both Modi and the opposition, but is curr ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Jay Dholakia as its candidate for the Nuapada Assembly by-election in Odisha on Wednesday. In addition to Nuapada, the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has approved several candidates for the 2025 Assembly by-elections in various states. Agha Syed Mohsin and Sushri Devyani Rana have been selected as candidates for the Budgam and Nagrota by-elections, respectively, in Jammu and Kash ...Read More >
MARTOLI, India (AP) -- Dozens of dilapidated stone buildings are what is left of the once-thriving border village of Martoli, in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Nestled in Johar Valley and surrounded by Himalayan peaks -- the most notable being Nanda Devi, once considered the tallest mountain in the world -- this village had traded sugar, lentils, spices and cloth for salt and wool with Tibetans across the border. The nomadic occupants of several villages spent the winter months in th ...Read More >
MUMBAI, INDIA - OCTOBER 9: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is greeted by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on his arrival at Raj Bhavan on October 9, 2025 in Mumbai, India. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS MUMBAI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British counterpart Keir Starmer hailed the potential on Thursday of their months-old trade deal to transform commercial links, as London unveiled further Indian investment in Britain. Starmer is in the financial capital of Mumbai ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's air safety regulator has sought more information from Boeing Co after an emergency power system was activated on an Air India 787 Dreamliner on Saturday, a government source with direct knowledge of the matter said. Boeing and Air India spokespersons did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The crew of the aircraft - which was flying from the northern Indian city of Amritsar to Birmingham, UK - detected deployment of the power system, known as the Ram A ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's trade pact with four European nations, including Switzerland and Norway, will take effect from Wednesday, boosting exports of textiles, leather and food products while attracting investments, a government statement said. Under the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement, signed last March after nearly 16 years of negotiations, the European Free Trade Association - comprising Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein - will cut tariffs on 92.2% of tariff lines ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- The death toll following a stampede at a political rally for a popular Indian actor and politician in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 40, the state's health minister said Sunday, as medics treated at least 124 injured in hospitals. Ma Subramanian told The Associated Press that 36 victims were dead by the time they were taken to a hospital on Saturday night and four more died later. He said the injured were largely stable. The dead included nine children, Subram ...Read More >
GUWAHATI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for peace on Saturday in Manipur state - the scene of two years of deadly ethnic violence - as he unveiled a package of development projects there worth nearly $1 billion. Some 260 people have been killed and more than 60,000 displaced since clashes first broke out between Manipur's dominant, mostly Hindu Meitei community and the mainly Christian Kuki tribes in May 2023 over economic benefits and job quotas. Modi, who met with di ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Nepal's first female chief justice, Sushila Karki, is set to take charge as interim head, stepping in to run the poor Himalayan nation after anti-graft protests plunged it into the worst political crisis in decades. Karki's appointment on Friday came days after violence led to the deaths of at least 51 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign on Tuesday. A judge who displayed zero tolerance of corruption, Karki is known for taking on powerful interests, i ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul urged India to press its close ally Russia to return to peace talks over the war in Ukraine, days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin at a regional summit in China. Wadephul told a news conference Wednesday that despite enormous efforts by Europe and the United States, Russia hasn't been willing to enter negotiations, a challenge New Delhi could possibly address. "The only demand is that weapon ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (AP) -- India and Japan on Friday agreed to further expand ties and deepen cooperation in areas such as security, economy, clean energy and human resources. The two nations released a "joint vision" for cooperation for the next 10 years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shigeru Ishiba held talks in Tokyo. They agreed to boost Japanese private sector investment in India to 10 trillion yen ($68 billion) over the next decade. The Indian leader said I ...Read More >
LAHORE/SRINAGAR (Reuters) -Pakistan's eastern towns of Chiniot and Hafizabad face a risk of catastrophic floods if an irrigation barrage crumbles on a major river upstream after heavy rains swelled it beyond capacity, officials warned on Thursday. Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan are battling torrential monsoon rains that have unleashed flash floods, swelled rivers and filled dams, with 60 deaths this month in Indian Kashmir, and Pakistan's toll at 805 since late June. Any flooding ...Read More >
The U.S. Embassy in New Delhi has warned Indian nationals they could have their American visas revoked if they commit serious crimes on U.S. soil. The advisory was issued days after police bodycam footage of an Indian woman allegedly shoplifting goods worth around $1,300 from a Target store in Illinois was widely shared online. The woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, is reported to have spent several hours in the store in the town of Normal, before gathering the merchandise and headi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Axiom-4 crew members, including Shubhanshu Shukla, were welcomed with hugs and drinks as they stepped into the International Space Station on Thursday. The newly launched spacecraft -- the fifth in the Dragon series and named Grace -- successfully completed a soft docking with the International Space Station at 4.01pm while orbiting above the North Atlantic Ocean."At 6:31 am EDT (4:01 IST) on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station for the four ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the Air India plane crash this month that killed 260 people, and identify contributing factors, India's civil aviation ministry said on Thursday. The London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed moments after takeoff from India's Ahmedabad city on June 12, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and the rest on ground in the world's worst aviation disaster in a decade. The black boxes of the plane - the coc ...Read More >
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he looked forward to meeting his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney during the Group of Seven summit, after the latter invited him to the gathering over a phone call on Friday. India is not a part of the grouping but can be invited as a guest to its annual gathering, which will be held this year in Kananaskis in the Canadian province of Alberta, from June 15 to 17. "Glad to receive a call from Prime Minister (Carney)...thanked him fo ...Read More >
AMRITSAR, India (AP) -- A U.S. military plane carrying 104 deported Indian migrants arrived in a northern Indian city on Wednesday, the first such flight to the country as part of a crackdown ordered by the Trump administration, airport officials said. The Indians who returned home had illegally entered the United States over the years and came from various Indian states. The move came ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington, which is expected next week. U.S. Preside ...Read More >
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